Also, just curious, when you say you “studied” the alt-right, what do you mean? I’m just wondering how far down the rabbit hole you’ve gone.

Are you just following the pronouncements of leading figures, like Richard Spencer, or are you lurking on /pol/ where they go to anonymously spill their bile into cyberspace unmitigated by any filter or repercussions?

To me that’s a gateway into their collective id that is both fascinating and horrifying at times, but once you get directly inside their minds a strange thing happens: You start to feel sympathy for at least some of them.

I’m not excusing it in anyway, but I suspect a lot of their hatred toward women in particular stems from rejection and being social outcasts in high school, where the pretty, popular “Stacys” rule together with their “Chad” boyfriends, and they suspect the entire world is like high school, where beautiful women get everything they want and have all the power and have the nerve to complain about they are being oppressed!

I guess my point is there is a process by which society produces these people. And if they can be made, they can be unmade. Or at least I hope or at best, there is some intervention that will prevent new ones from being made.